词根词缀：-able

【来源及含义】Latin: a suffix; expressing capacity, fitness to do that which can be handled or managed, suitable skills to accomplish something; capable of being done, something which can be finished, etc.

【相关描述】A suffix that forms adjectives. The suffix -ible has related meanings; expressing ability, capacity, fitness; capable of, fit for, able to be done, can be done, inclined to, tending to, given to.

This list is only a small sample of the thousands of -able words that exist in English.

【同源单词】abdicable, -able, abolishable, abominable, abradable, acceptable

词根词缀：hal-, hali-, -haled, -haling, -halant, -halent, -halation

【来源及含义】Latin: breathe, breath; from halitus, "breath" and related to halare, "to breathe"

【相关描述】Don’t confuse this hal-, hali- unit meaning "breath, breathe" with another halio-, hali- unit which means "salt".

【相关词根词缀】 Word units related to breath and breathe: pneo-; pneumato-; pneumo-; psych-; spiro.

【同源单词】exhalable, exhalant, exhalation, exhalatory, exhale, exhalence